For five years I have immersed myself in a mathematics that is so impressive that it boggles the mind.

Teaching something requires more than just a shallow interpretation, and in teaching these beautiful concepts, I have truly generated more questions than answers and I have learned more than I have taught.

In my third year of teaching calculus, I stumbled upon a problem about Gabriel’s Horn.  The horn, while going on forever and having an infinite surface area, has a finite volume.

The Infinite Object has a Finite Volume

We do, in fact, use this very principle every day as we use this mathematics.  We use something that we can not fathom to help us in things we understand.  And it works.

The very ideas of Limits, Areas Under Curves, and Instant Slope

are not only far-fetched, they are impossible.  And yet, we use them in science, in engineering, in business, and in all of our technological advances.

Jesus speaks to our position:

John 16 22 So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.23 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

You are not broken.

You are not unimportant.

You are not here today and gone tomorrow.

Not in God’s infinite world.

Your time is just beginning.

And though we can not fathom the end from the beginning, though we can not possibly understand HOW it works, we CAN understand that it works perfectly.

If you ask me:  “How can we use something that we can not fathom to help us in things we understand?”

I will simply respond:  “I do it every day.  Mathematics is, truly, God’s Language.”

And written in mathematics is a small hint as to who He truly is.

Bow Down.

Worship.

Follow the Infinite God so that you can make sense of a Finite World.

And remember, Jesus said:  “my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.24”

Thank God for the God of multiplication.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J